Patricia Robins (born 1 February 1921 in Sussex, England) is a British romance novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.

Robins comes from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom. Her mother was the popular romance writer Denise Robins, who was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960-1966). Her maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter.

Born Patricia Denise Robins on 1 February 1921 in Sussex, England. She is the daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and Denise Robins, an author and the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960-1966). She has two sisters Anne and Eve.

Her mother encouraged her to write, and at 12, she published her first children's novellas. She worked with a woman's magazine editorial team and published more children's novellas, she went on to write romance novels like her mother. In the 1960's she started to use the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer.

Patricia lived in rural Kent, she had three children and eight grandchildren.

Murder Mysteries

Over My Dead Body (2003)

Dead Centre (2005)

Infatuation (2007)

Novels

The Garden (1980)

The Constant Heart (1998)

Dead Reckoning (2009)

Collections

Variations: The Snake Belt / One in Three / The WhiteDoves / The Angel and the Witch or Miss Tansley's Easter Play / Trust Me / Once a Year / Goat's Loose / The Patient in Number Twenty-Two / Comfortand Joy / Two Sides to a Coin / Old Toys Wanted / A True Story / PoorLittle Rich Girl / Progress / The Garden (1991)